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"Today was my first meeting with this student. After discussing our timeline and how to best use me, we dove in. I enjoy working MCAT problems and discussing these topics with him. He has taken the MCAT once before and has an extremely solid foundation. We are now just putting the finishing touches on that knowledge. I think I work with him better because of this.

We covered Chapter 3 of the MCAT Biological Sciences book discussing biochemistry (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates). We went through the chapter kind of quick and each page I looked for tricks I remember encountering or devising myself to study. For example, based on all of the MCAT passages I've read I know that they like to use hemoglobin and insulin for discussing proteins. They can ask questions of primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary structure, disulfide linkages, Sanger sequencing, etc. I told him about this and many others while we reviewed the chapter.

The most enjoyable part was the practice quiz at the end of the chapter with both freestanding and passage-based questions. We really took our time here and I told him he should do that for now, then practice speed later. He needs to focus on questioning his foundation by discriminating between answer choices. The more he comes up with sound logic doing this, the stronger that knowledge becomes. Later on he'll work on speed. In a similar vein, we discussed general strategies, how to spot trick answers, how to attempt to eliminate many answers at once on a Roman numeral question.

All in all, very great time. We covered a lot of biochemistry but also some organic, physical chemistry, and general chemistry. I am very excited for the next session! The student is very smart and I think he will excel on this year's MCAT with me helping him."

"The student wished to discuss organ systems and wanted to start with the reproductive. I told him that it would make more sense if we discussed the endocrine System. So, we began with its purpose, the testable differences between peptide and steroid hormones and the basic framework of hypothalamic-pituitary-end organ axes. We discussed how the etymology informs much of the study of the system. We then proceeded through the major anterior pituitary axes, beginning with the thyroid, then discussing the others as a variation on a theme. We discussed the posterior pituitary, underlining the difference between endocrine and exocrine secretion. We discussed blood sugar regulation and calcium regulation as non-HPT systems.

In discussing some of the cognates of the word roots, it became clear that he would need help with verbal, so I suggested that he grab 10 words a day from any number of websites to enhance his vocab. When it came to the endocrine system itself, he was a little wary of my etymological approach until he began to see how understanding the names of things informed rather than confused his understanding. I assured him it would take a little review, and to say or think out the full names of molecules rather than their acronyms until he knows them cold.

He will read the extra slides on the female reproductive system and the web resources I have created to see if he can follow it now that he understands the anterior pituitary. If he needs my help, we will discuss reproduction and embryogenesis. If not, we will begin with the kidney."

"We completed various passages in biology from the practice book and from the website. The topics included the cardiovascular system, skin, bacteria, and the immune system. Overall, while she did OK during this session, she had trouble with questions that concerned more discrete details that she may have forgotten since taking her last biology courses. While this is understandable, I suggested to her to review the topics that we did during this session as well as continuing to complete more passages from the practice book and from the website to continue honing her passage-solving skills."